"Mother Lode of Chromium at Hanford Excavated" [1]
"The largest source of chromium contamination near the Columbia River at Hanford has been removed after workers dug up contaminated soil down to groundwater 85 feet deep."
"The largest source of chromium contamination near the Columbia River at Hanford has been removed after workers dug up contaminated soil down to groundwater 85 feet deep."
"The federal government is taking a new approach to conservation with a $1.2 billion program in the Farm Bill that will include competitive grants for soil and water improvements in eight regions, including the longleaf pine forests of North Carolina and other Southern states, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Thursday.
'This is a new day,' Vilsack said in an interview.
"The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday said it would be unable to meet a deadline to remove drums of nuclear waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico because of safety concerns tied to the radiological materials."
"Federal officials have approved the North Carolina Department of Transportation's plan to rebuild an eroded beach along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore and a nearby wildlife refuge, to protect the Outer Banks highway."
"After years of challenges to federal environmental officials, the maker of d-Con rat traps has agreed to discontinue a consumer line of poison-laced baits that have accidentally harmed children, wildlife and pets."
"The Obama administration on Monday will announce one of the strongest actions ever taken by the United States government to fight climate change, a proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut carbon pollution from the nation’s power plants 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, according to people briefed on the plan." EPA Press Advisory [22]for 10:30 am EDT announcement by Administrator Gina McCarthy of announcement on carbon emissions, including link to livestream.
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"Cindy Dixon was unloading bales of hay into a metal shed on a blustery afternoon in mid-March, when the landscape around her Navajo Reservation homestead was as brown and bleak as the open-pit coal mine a few miles to the west and well within earshot."
"Japan will attempt to staunch the massive amounts of contaminated groundwater flowing into the sea from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex with a giant wall of ice."
"Whistleblower Justin Greenwell told regulators that his company, Armstrong Coal, was misreporting the dust levels in his mine, potentially putting miners in danger of black lung disease."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/mother-lode-chromium-hanford-excavated
[2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics
[3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution
[4] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national
[6] http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/05/31/2997843/mother-lode-of-chromium-at-hanford.html
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/usda-launches-12-billion-grants-conservation-projects
[8] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture
[9] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land
[10] http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/05/29/228798/usda-launches-12-billion-in-competitive.html?sp=/99/200/260/#storylink=cpy
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-miss-deadline-removing-nuclear-waste-los-alamos
[12] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/nuclear-power/radiation
[13] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/71639
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/beach-nourishment-might-buy-time-nc-outer-banks
[15] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[16] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast
[17] http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/05/31/228988/beach-nourishment-might-buy-time.html?sp=/99/200/260/
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/rat-poison-maker-agrees-stop-selling-formula-harmed-kids-pets
[19] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health
[20] http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/05/30/228940/rat-poison-maker-agrees-to-stop.html?sp=/99/200/260/
[21] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-aim-30-percent-cut-carbon-emissions
[22] http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/bd4379a92ceceeac8525735900400c27/eab2b2ae71ff7a5185257ce800579d6f!OpenDocument
[23] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change
[24] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/us/politics/epa-to-seek-30-percent-cut-in-carbon-emissions.html?hp
[25] https://www.sej.org/donate-donor-advised-fund
[26] https://www.sej.org/headlines/navajo-nation%E2%80%99s-shifting-sands-climate-change
[27] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population
[28] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southwest
[29] http://www.climatecentral.org/news/navajo-nation-climate-change-17326
[30] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fukushima-ice-just-another-brick-wall-denial
[31] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster
[32] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international
[33] http://america.aljazeera.com/blogs/scrutineer/2014/5/27/at-fukushima-iceisjustanotherbrickinthewallofdenial.html
[34] https://www.sej.org/headlines/war-coal-miners-how-companies-hide-threat-black-lung
[35] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism
[36] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy
[37] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media
[38] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/29/black-lung-disease-kentucky-coal-dust_n_5368878.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green
[39] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81?page=2575
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[43] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81?page=2577
[44] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81?page=2578
[45] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81?page=2579
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[47] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81?page=4184